Les habitants
Raymond Depardon: Humanity in Focus
February 20 - March 4
In this typically curious, utterly engrossing late-career portrait of contemporary France, the filmmaker outfits a camper with mics and cameras, parks it in various locations around France, and invites a range of people inside simply to talk. Preceded by La France.
This 2016 documentary can be seen as something of a culminating work for Raymond Depardon, and a typically curious, utterly engrossing late-career portrait of contemporary France. In Les habitants, Depardon outfits a camper-trailer with mics and cameras and hits the French highways, parking in various locations around the country and inviting a range of people—teenagers and the elderly, single people and couples, parents and children—inside simply to talk. What emerges is an intimate and characteristically rich picture of the French at the midway point of the 2010s, their anxieties, desires, worries, cherished memories, and the challenges they face in their everyday lives.
Preceded by:
La France
Raymond Depardon, Claudine Nougaret, 2010, France, 6m
Depardon here wistfully, philosophically reflects on the previous six years spent traveling around France and photographing it, alone.
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